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The Moon on Sunday, December 27, 2015: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.1% lit · ♌︎ Leo 00°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on December 27, 2015Waning Gibbous

Sunday 27 December 2015385,252 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, December 27, 2015, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.1% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
385,252 km239,384 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (1°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 27, 2015 is on Friday, December 25, 2015 at 11:12 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 01:31 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 25, 201511:12
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, January 2, 201605:31

The Moon around December 27

More about this date

Sunday, December 27, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 11, 2015 to the new moon of January 10, 2016, a cycle of 29.63 days.